Valentina Casalini

These images are part of an ongoing project, which intends to draw the relation
between London and its intrinsic urban features. This is an attempt to understand
how the geographical environment of London could play an influence in shaping
the poetic visions of so many writers and artists, particularly during the Victorian
Age. That period has seen an incredible diffusion of the gothic fiction genre, a
genre that combines fiction, horror, death and Romance. London has been the
privileged setting of so many gothic stories and I’d like to resume those
atmospheres like a psychogeographical interpretation of the city of London, as Ian
Sinclair did in his books. Most of his work consists in a psychogeographical
reconstruction of the City blended with essays, fiction and poetry.